Sentences with phrase «own cultural environments»

Lee described how XiaoIce's success in China led to Microsoft wanting to see whether a similar project would be «just as captivating in a radically different cultural environment.»

«Even though extant research has identified numerous predictors of people's happiness and well being, most of these factors represent relatively stable aspects of an individual's life, such as the cultural environment in which one is raised or resides and demographics such as age, education, social class, marital status, and religion,» write the researchers.

Amid a changing social media, technology and cultural environment, H.R.'s unease is about more than whether there could be a Harvey Weinstein on their payroll.

I think it's the cultural environment,» said Helen Wright, whose three grown children also take antidepressants.

In a cultural environment where all authority is suspect and the notion of divine authority is thought to be a psychological hangover from the premodern world, the claim that divine authority is transmitted in an unbroken chain of apostolic succession through the bishops of the Church in communion with the bishop of Rome seems literally incredible.

While evangelical Christianity in growing rapidly in mainland China, some statistics indicate that Catholicism is not doing nearly as well in a cultural environment in which many people are seeking answers to life's questions that go beyond consumerism.

The teaching of the bishops of Malta sets up a cultural environment that will exacerbate both divides.

Education today in the industrial environment and in the political and cultural environments consists of how to ensure that the human resources (since both you and I are now reduced to being human resources rather than human beings) can be trained on a continuing basis, throughout our lives, to be recycled at the right moment, to be a profitable human resource?

(9) For a further development of this, see my article «Teaching theology in a new cultural environment,» in Chris Arthur (ed.)

All that a person owes to his parents and to the cultural environment of his birth can not be overemphasized, and yet it belongs to his very personhood that he becomes steadily independent.

Take the 1 in 3 Campaign, for example, whose mission is to «start a new conversation about abortion» and to «create a more enabling cultural environment for the policy and legal work of the abortion rights movement.»

Women suffer the most due to civil wars, being subject to rape, becoming single parents, made refugees and having to bring up children without proper schooling, social services and their traditional cultural environment of home, the extended family and village or town.

In a changing cultural environment where new ideas threaten the safety and security of the faith, Faith Unraveled is a fearlessly honest story of survival.

It was apparently, then, a deep ethical motivation that at length found expression in the dogma now familiar but in its cultural environment of astonishing radicalism: «Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image nor any likeness of anything that is in the heavens above or in the earth beneath or in the waters that are under the earth: thou shalt not bow clown thyself to them nor serve them» (Exod.

For we must not ignore the fact that these very expressions had played an important role in the myths of the «dying - and - rising god» which were still very much alive in the wider cultural environment of Israel.

Now I experience a liberation for orthodoxy in the endless flexibility of centered apostolic teaching to meld with different cultural environments while offering anew the eternal word of the theandric, messianic Servant in each new historical setting.

It is the business of men of faith to see to it that they employ the forms which, in a particular cultural environment, will give the clearest and most exact description of the content of their faith to the people who live in that environment.

Students born and raised in the United States face a challenge that was not faced in such acute form by their parents who grew up in a coherently Muslim cultural environment.

In the cultural environment of the church today, there is very little appreciation for a Christian way of life.

It simply drew its artistic sustenance from its cultural environment.

Its various books reflected many aspects of the cultural environment in which they were composed, including even the prejudices and limited knowledge of their authors.

The Broadcasting and Film Commission of the N.C.C. may make awards annually to films of outstanding merit that, within the perspective of the Christian faith, also (1) portray with honesty and compassion the human condition — including human society in its cultural environment — depicting man in the tension between his attempt to realize the full potential of his of.

It is, of course, necessary to recognize that such theories depend to a great extent on the kinds of values and presuppositions built into the larger cultural environment from which they emerge.

Portray human society and its cultural environment in such a way as to enhance understanding of the family of man in its richness and variety.

The People's Communication Charter articulates essential rights and responsibilities that ordinary people have in relation to their cultural environment.

Colonial - era Catholicism on the East Coast adjusted to a potentially hostile cultural environment and overcame centrifugal tendencies by relocating the sacred from church building and public square to home, extended family and a «domesticized piety.»

The goal, or at least the effect, of such image adaptations of the Christian faith to the culture is to erase the distinctions between the Christian message and the cultural environment.

Subsequent chapters will focus on two other major areas of religious television effect: the effects of religious television in relation to the local church and in relation to the broader cultural environment.

The history of Christian thought has been a process of continual evaluation of new expressions of traditional faith to determine whether these new expressions adequately preserve the essential aspects of the faith, or whether they have sacrificed essential elements under the pressure and demands of the immediate cultural environment.

By «truth» is meant at least that in the Word, become flesh in a man Who was born and lived in a particular time and in a cultural environment and religious heritage which He reflected, we are given an authentic and sufficient view of the nature and purpose of the universe and are enabled to call God «Father.»

So if one didn't work in a mult - cultural environment, race and gender would be pressing issues?

Piety is further structured by the policy it adopts regarding its relation to its host society: Will piety «resist the social and cultural patterns of its civilizational environment» or will it «recognize structures in the social and cultural environment with which it can work...?»

They assumed that the media are only one of many forces that shape our cultural environment, and that violence in the media is both a cause and an effect which reflects much that is wrong in society while at the same time amplifying some of its problems.

, Divine and Human Agency in Paul and his Cultural Environment (Library of New Testament Studies, 335; London: T&T Clark, 2006).

On a global as well as a regional level, Medela supports initiatives to enhance social and cultural environments.

Every family is some kind of parenting institute, social and cultural environment where a child develops.

This support can come from a partner, extended family or the wider community depending on the particular circumstances and the mom's cultural environment.

To overcome that very different, and much more difficult social and cultural environment, must have taken significant strength and determination.

ECCRAB will advise Erie County government through the County Executive as to the effective and equitable distribution of County funds to cultural organizations with the purpose of fostering a vibrant, diverse cultural environment in Erie County.

It's more closely integrated into the overall cultural environment, which perhaps is one reason why we value it more highly.

Speakers addressed circumstances necessary to produce a cultural environment that nurtures creativity; the role of epiphanies in the creative thinking process; and how science can contribute to enhanced creativity.

This work, under extreme conditions and in a different cultural environment, is very valuable experience, although this often remains unrecognised.

From the moment of birth humans possess the capacity to make distinctions between speakers of their native language and others, which helps understand how infants and young children are tuned to quickly acquire the knowledge of their society and adopt to their cultural environment,» said Dr. Marno.

And both humans and animals direct their evolution through the social and cultural environments they construct for themselves — a phenomenon Feldman thinks is not well reflected in the modern synthesis.

«Our data confirm that the species was likely Plasmodium falciparum, and that it affected people in different ecological and cultural environments.

Cultural environment.

Working with a professor and lab mates from back home make for an easier, more congenial experience than plunging into a strictly American cultural environment.

In a 2005 article in the Journal of Biosocial Science, the scientists attributed Ashkenazis» intellectual distinction to a religious and cultural environment that blocked them from working as farm laborers in central and northern Europe for almost a millennium, starting around A.D. 800.

School work, the need to adjustment to a new social and cultural environment consumed most of my attention and energy.

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